Anxiety Quote by Catherine M. Pittman

““The existence of different memory systems explains why you can experience anxiety in a situation without any conscious memory (or understanding) of why the situation produces anxiety. Just because your amygdala has an emotional memory of an event doesn’t mean that your cortex remembers the same event.””

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